From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
Message-Id: <199710291954.OAA25260@access4.digex.net>
Subject: development track for "where-it-says"
To: masinter@parc.xerox.com (Larry Masinter), connolly@w3.org
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:54:04 -0500 (EST)
Cc: uri@bunyip.com, urn-ietf@bunyip.com
In-Reply-To: <34555B44.47DDD707@parc.xerox.com> from Larry Masinter at "Oct 27, 97 07:25:57 pm"
To do a little forward thinking, and follow up on what Larry Masinter said:
> The "#fragment" notation is only used for named components.
>
Makes a lot of sense to me.
My initial stab at syntax for "where-it-says" was a
searchpart along the lines of ...?find="string-to-match" .
What I have learned from this discussion is that I need to start
with the HTML community.
If I can interest HTMLx development in exporting a reliable (i.e.
consistent across browsers) string-matching search/location
method for HTML, I hope that the URL specs won't have narrowed to
the point where there is no reasonable syntax by which to ask for
it.
I believe that the XML project is already working on
intra-document locators in XLL although I am not sure that they
provide any sort of a pattern match yet.
-- Al Gilman
PS: I know that searchparts are presently server-side functions
but I don't immediately see that extending them to be sometimes
done client-side poses any real conflict.